The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin Brought Down Australia's Censorship System.

State governments relied on obscenity laws to deal with booksellers who stocked material authorities considered likely to deprave or corrupt. Anti-censorship, rather like anti-hanging, is one of those causes of the 1960s and early 1970s that has come to occupy an uncertain place in the collective memory of that time. [Extracted from the article]

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